An interdisciplinary team lead by Frank Schnorrer and Carsten Grashoff has now been able to quantify the mechanical forces transmitted by a key attachment protein called Talin during the development of muscle attachments.

Following the appointment of André Le Bivic as Director of Institut des Sciences Biologiques du CNRS (INSB), Laurent Kodjabachian is appointed by CNRS and AMU as Interim Director of IBDM as of February 1st2019.